The Captain Lands in Paradise

by Manguso, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781882295333
• ISBN10: 1882295331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Alice James Books

Summary

Sarah Manguso's first collection, a combination of verse and prose poems, explores love, nostalgia, remorse, and the joyful and mysterious preparation for the discoveries of new lands, selves, and ideas. The voice is consistently spare, honest, understated, and eccentric.

Table of Contents

I
The Rider	3	(1)
The Deer Comes Down the Mountain	4	(1)
It's a Fine Thing To Walk Through the Allegory	5	(1)
The Truth	6	(1)
The Piano	7	(1)
Prospect	8	(1)
I Was Waiting Patiently	9	(1)
Beautiful Things	10	(1)
American Reverie	11	(1)
Social Theory	12	(1)
Poem of Comfort	13	(1)
Poem of Comfort in Which Everything is the Same	14	(1)
Poem of Comfort in Which I Am Powerless	15	(1)
Wild Goose Chase	16	(3)
II
Address to Winnie in Paris	19	(2)
The Precision We Need is of Another Earth	21	(2)
What I Found	23	(1)
The Bartender in Hell	24	(1)
Telling Lies	25	(1)
Clytie and Her Sun	26	(1)
The Captain Lands in Paradise	27	(1)
The Questioners	28	(1)
Love is a Narrative Impulse	29	(2)
Short Essay on Love	31	(1)
Glencoe	32	(1)
Putting the Cat Together	33	(1)
Narrative Poem	34	(1)
Short Essay on the Muse	35	(1)
There is a Difference Between	36	(1)
The Typewriter	37	(4)
III
Another Poem About the Muse	41	(1)
The First Time	42	(1)
Two Variations on a Theme by Stevens	43	(1)
Space	44	(1)
What We Miss	45	(1)
Winter Poem	46	(1)
The Dunes in Truro	47	(1)
Cha--Cha	48	(1)
The Snow	49	(1)
The Chair	50	(1)
The Inkstain	51	(1)
The Barn	52	(1)
The Hurricane	53	(1)
Love Story With Bad Moral	54	(1)
Give Me a Sign	55